Buiding Community and Instruction: setting the basis for

Mar Camacho

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1233–1235

: Deeply immersed in the Digital Age, the educational use of ICT promotes a new culture of teaching and learning, the pluralisation of learning spaces enables new open and flexible teaching and learning models to emerge in which interaction and...

From Instruction to Community Building: setting the basis for 21st century lifelong learning

Mar Camacho

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1236–1245

Lifelong learning in the 21st century can be exemplified with the creation of communities of practice, in which learners gather together in order to achieve common purposes. This paper is a report on the findings of a two-year pilot research at...

Virtual communities as training agents: towards lifelong models of teacher training

Mar Camacho; Mercè Gisbert

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1099–1104

Virtual communities emerge out of the need of moving from static traditional training systems to new possibilities supported by technology that allow collaboration and continuous renewal of knowledge. Trainees constantly revisit contents and are...

Topics: Training, Community

The N-@ble Initiative: An instructional proposal for Teacher Training in ICT-Based Settings

Mar Camacho; Mercè Gisbert

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3295–3300

The continuous transformations undergone in the educational field justify the need to include technology in the teaching and learning of a foreign language, since it is modifying the traditional educational methods and requires a technology...

Topics: Educational Technology, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods, Information Communication Technologies, Languages

A strange in the mirror? Students perceptions about their digital identity

Linda Castañeda; Mar Camacho

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3275–3280

Taking as departing point the important role that technologies have as mediators of identities and the assumption that 'digital identity' refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their ...

Language policies in multi-ethnic Latin America and the role of education and literacy programmes in the construction of national identity

Clare Mar-Molinero

International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 15, No. 3 pp. 209–219

This paper will examine the legacy of Spanish colonialism in the language configuration of Latin America. It will show how this area is inevitably dominated by Spanish-speaking, eurocentric élites, and how this situation can be found in many...

Language: English

From Personal to Social: Learning Environments that Work

Mar Camacho; Sonia Guilana

Digital Education Review Vol. 20 (December 2011) pp. 24–36

VLE (Virtual Learning Environments) are rapidly falling short to meet the demands of a networked society. Web 2.0 and social networks are proving to offer a more personalized, open environment for students to learn formally as they are already doing ...

Emerging communities: new challenges for 21st century training models

Mar Camacho; Mercè Gisbert

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1093–1098

Abstract: This paper considers the transition from traditional models of teacher training to new forms which have been made possible by the possibilities offered by ICT. Virtual communities emerge out of the need of moving from static traditional...

Topics: Training

Utilizing Information and Communication Technologies to Achieve Lifelong Education for All: A Case Study of Myanmar

Naing Yee Mar

Educational Research for Policy and Practice Vol. 3, No. 2 (January 2004) pp. 141–166

This paper examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in advancing the cause of education for all and livelong learning. After examining the claimed benefits of ICTs for promoting education and schooling, and the...

Tasks and activities. A parent-child interaction analysis

M.-Mar González

Learning and Instruction Vol. 6, No. 4 pp. 287–306

The present study is framed within an ecological and sociocultural approach to interaction. It intends to answer three main questions: (a) Is there any influence of the content of the task on the interactions engaged in by parents and children? (b)...

Language: English

The Influence of New Technologies on the Evolution of Learning and Attitudes towards Mathematics in Secondary Students

Maria del Mar Garcia; Isabel Maria Romero

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology Vol. 7, No. 1 (Apr 08, 2009) pp. 369–395

The present article is part of a study carried out with Secondary School students in Mathematics class. Our research interest lies in exploring the influence of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) on students' attitudes and on how...

Is Free Recall Active: The Testing Effect through the ICAP Lens

Christiana Bruchok; Christopher Mar; Scotty D. Craig

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 2017) pp. 127–148

Amidst evidence in favor of ?active learning,? online instruction widely implements passive design and tests learners? retrieval performance as opposed to learners? understanding. Literature reporting the testing effect promotes recall as a...

E-textbooks: ¿the next forgotten fad?

Janaina Minelli Oliveira; Mar Camacho; Mercè Gisbert

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1385–1389

It is out of question that some new technologies help some people learn in some instances and that new technologies offer different potentials for learning. E-books are one of such new technologies. In this exploratory study we wanted to see how e...

Effect of Inclusion versus Segregation on Reading Comprehension of EFL Learners with Dyslexia: Case of Lebanon

Ghada M. Awada; Mar Gutiérrez-Colón

English Language Teaching Vol. 10, No. 9 (2017) pp. 49–60

This study reports the relative effectiveness of the inclusion theory when the combined strategy instruction on improving the reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts for students with dyslexia is implemented. A total sample of 298...

From Digital Storytelling to 3D Game-based Storytelling: fostering student’s creativity in initial teacher training

Mar Camacho; Vanessa Esteve-Gonzalez; Mercè Gisbert

Global Learn 2016 (Apr 28, 2016) pp. 240–245

The concept of digital educational games for training and simulation in Higher Education is ranging from subject-related educational games to the recreation of authentic and rich learning experiences. After several years of successfully using...

Topics: Game-based learning

E-textbooks: initial appointments on an emergent field of enquiry

Janaina de Oliveira; Mar Camacho; Mercè Gisbert

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3413–3417

This paper presents some preliminary reflections on the emergent field of e-textbooks. It seeks to raise awareness to relevant areas of research as different countries make policy transition to replace a pedagogical tool which can be considered to...

Is Free Recall Active: The Testing Effect through the ICAP Lens

Christiana Bruchok; Christopher Mar; Scotty D. Craig

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 330–344

Amidst evidence in favor of ?active learning,? online instruction widely implements passive design and tests learners? retrieval performance as opposed to learners? understanding. Literature reporting the testing effect promotes recall as a...

Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

Learning as representation and representation as learning: A theoretical framework for teacher knowledge in the digital age

Janaina Minelli Oliveira; Mercè Gisbert Cervera; Mar Camacho Martí

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2646–2653

The present theoretical paper draws on the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework as a map onto which the contributions of a multimodal perspective of learning to teacher education are identified. It is assumed both learning and sign...

Useful Interactive Teaching Tool for Learning: Clickers in Higher Education

María-del-Mar Camacho-Miñano; Cristina del Campo

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 24, No. 4 (2016) pp. 706–723

Many university lecturers are encouraged to implement innovative teaching tools and methodologies such as clickers in order to create an interactive learning environment and improve student learning, but its performance must be evaluated. The aim of ...

A Three-Dimensional Position Architecture Using Digital TDE Receiver and Cylindrical Array Antenna

J. Mar; S.R. Wu; Y.T. Wang; K.C. Tsai

Journal of Applied Research and Technology Vol. 11, No. 2 (April 2013) pp. 175–182

The robust three-dimensional position architecture is proposed in the paper, where the hybrid time difference of arrival (TDOA) and direction of arrival (DOA) position system was designed to backup the four-station TDOA position system. The digital...

Language: English

Zig-Zagging in Geometrical Reasoning in Technological Collaborative Environments: A Mathematical Working Space-Framed Study Concerning Cognition and Affect

Inés Gómez-Chacón; Isabel Romero Albaladejo; del Mar García López

ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education Vol. 48, No. 6 (2016) pp. 909–924

This study highlights the importance of cognition-affect interaction pathways in the construction of mathematical knowledge. Scientific output demands further research on the conceptual structure underlying such interaction aimed at coping with the...

SMS as a Learning Tool: An Experimental Study

Mar Gutiérrez-Colon Plana; Pere Gallardo Torrano; M Elisa Grova

The EUROCALL Review Vol. 20, No. 2 (September 2012) pp. 33–47

The aim of this experimental study was to find out the potential of using mobile phones in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), specifically the use of Short Message Service (SMS) as a support tool in the EFL class. The research questions...

QuesTInSitu: From tests to routes for assessment in situ activities

Patricia Santos; Mar Perez-Sanagustin; Davinia Hernandez-Leo; Josep Blat

Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 2517–2534

Test-based assessment tools are mostly focused on the use of computers. However, advanced Information and Communication Technologies, such as handheld devices, opens up the possibilities of creating new assessment scenarios, increasing the teachers’ ...

Self-regulated learning strategies predict learner behavior and goal attainment in Massive Open Online Courses

René F. Kizilcec; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín; Jorge J. Maldonado

Computers & Education Vol. 104, No. 1 (January 2017) pp. 18–33

Individuals with strong self-regulated learning (SRL) skills, characterized by the ability to plan, manage and control their learning process, can learn faster and outperform those with weaker SRL skills. SRL is critical in learning environments...

Language: English

4SPPIces: A Case Study of Factors in a Scripted Collaborative-Learning Blended Course across Spatial Locations

Mar Perez-Sanagustin; Patricia Santos; Davinia Hernandez-Leo; Josep Blat

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Vol. 7, No. 3 (September 2012) pp. 443–465

Computer-Supported Collaborative Blended Learning (CSCBL) scripts are complex learning situations in which formal and informal activities conducted at different spatial locations are coordinated and integrated into one unique learning setting...

Understanding Learners’ Motivation and Learning Strategies in MOOCs

Carlos Alario-Hoyos; Iria Estvez-Ayres; Mar Prez-Sanagustn; Carlos Delgado Kloos; Carmen Fernndez-Panadero

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18, No. 3 (May 12, 2017)

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have changed the way in which OER (Open Educational Resources) are bundled by teachers and consumed by learners. MOOCs represent an evolution towards the production and offering of structured quality OER. Many...

Augmenting Reality and Formality of Informal and Non-Formal Settings to Enhance Blended Learning

Mar Pérez-Sanagustin; Davinia Hernández-Leo; Patricia Santos; Carlos Delgado Kloos; Josep Blat

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Vol. 7, No. 2 (2014) pp. 118–131

Visits to museums and city tours have been part of higher and secondary education curriculum activities for many years. However these activities are typically considered "less formal" when compared to those carried out in the classroom,...

LdShake: Learning design solutions sharing and co-edition

Davinia Hernández-Leo; Lauren Romeo; Miguel A. Carralero; Jonathan Chacón; Mar Carrió; Pau Moreno; Josep Blat

Computers & Education Vol. 57, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 2249–2260

Two important challenges that teachers are currently facing are the sharing and the collaborative authoring of their learning design solutions, such as didactical units and learning materials. On the one hand, there are tools that can be used for...

Language: English

Delving into Participants' Profiles and Use of Social Tools in MOOCs

Carlos Alario-Hoyos; Mar Pérez-Sanagustin; Carlos Delgado-Kloos; Hugo A. Parada G.; Mario Muñoz-Organero

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies Vol. 7, No. 3 (2014) pp. 260–266

This paper presents an in-depth empirical analysis of a nine-week MOOC. This analysis provides novel results regarding participants' profiles and use of built-in and external social tools. The results served to detect seven participants' patterns...

Virtual Reality Exposure and Imaginal Exposure in the Treatment of Fear of Flying: A Pilot Study

Mar Rus-Calafell; Jose Gutierrez-Maldonado; Cristina Botella; Rosa M. Banos

Behavior Modification Vol. 37, No. 4 (July 2013) pp. 568–590

Fear of flying (FF) is an impairing psychological disorder that is extremely common in developed countries. The most effective treatment for this particular type of phobia is exposure therapy. However, there are few studies comparing imaginal...

Dialogic learning and interactive groups: an IMS LD template integrated in runtime systems

Mar Pérez-Sanagustín; Davinia Hernández-Leo; Patricia Santos; Sergio Sayago; Josep Blat; D. Griffiths

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 3, No. 2008 (Jul 16, 2008)

Dialogic learning and interactive groups have proved to be a useful educational methodological approach in lifelong learning with adults. The principles of this approach stress the importance of dialogue and equal participation in every stage of the ...

Teachers' ICT-related self-efficacy, job resources, and positive emotions: Their structural relations with autonomous motivation and work engagement

Eva Moreira-Fontán; Mar García-Señorán; Ángeles Conde-Rodríguez; Antonio González

Computers & Education Vol. 134, No. 1 (June 2019) pp. 63–77

Different variables related to information and communication technologies (ICT), such as digital self-efficacy for teaching, perceived institutional support for innovation, ICT positive emotions, and satisfaction with institutional support, are key...

Language: English

Learning Experience Assessment of Flipped Courses

Pablo Schwarzenberg; Jaime Navon; Miguel Nussbaum; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín; Daniela Caballero

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 30, No. 2 (2018) pp. 237–258

The flipped classroom has shown a positive effect on academic performance and student satisfaction. However, there are relatively few studies that help us understand when or why this method has a positive effect on students, so as to aid the design...

Actituds i expectatives de l's educatiu de les xarxes socials en els alumnes universitaris

Cinta Espuny Vidal; Juan Gonzlez Martnez; Mar Lleix Fortuo; Merc Gisbert Cervera

RUSC. Universities and Knowledge Society Journal Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan 11, 2011)

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Incorporating Internet resources into classroom practice: Secondary school teacher action plans

Elena Ram; #237;rez ; Mar ; #237;a Clemente; Isabel Ca; #241;edo ; Jorge Mart; #237n

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 28, No. 8 (Jan 01, 2012) pp. 1433–1450

Knowing precisely how teachers use Internet resources in their classroom practice is essential when seeking to explain what aspects support the real incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching, and in determining...

Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Using the Gibbs Energy and the Common Tangent Plane Criterion

Maria del Mar Olaya; Juan A. Reyes-Labarta; Maria Dolores Serrano; Antonio Marcilla

Chemical Engineering Education (CEE) Vol. 44, No. 3 (2010)

Phase thermodynamics is often perceived as a difficult subject with which many students never become fully comfortable. The Gibbsian geometrical framework can help students to gain a better understanding of phase equilibria. An exercise to interpret ...

Supporting Situated Learning Based on QR Codes with Etiquetar App: A Pilot Study

Miguel Olmedo Camacho; Mar Pérez-Sanagustín; Carlos Alario-Hoyos; Xavier Soldani; Carlos Delgado Kloos; Sergio Sayago

International Conference on Mobile Learning 2014 (2014)

EtiquetAR is an authoring tool for supporting the design and enactment of situated learning experiences based on QR tags. Practitioners use etiquetAR for creating, managing and personalizing collections of QR codes with special properties: (1) codes ...

Computing Liquid-Liquid Phase Equilibria: An Exercise for Understanding the Nature of False Solutions and How to Avoid Them

Maria del Mar Olaya; Isabel Ibarra; Juan A. Reyes-Labarta; Maria Dolores Serrano; Antonio Marcilla

Chemical Engineering Education (CEE) Vol. 41, No. 3 (2007) pp. 218–224

An exercise to compute LLE data is presented to illustrate the problems that can arise when the isoactivity equilibrium condition is used in the LLE calculations. A much more efficient condition is obtained when isoactivity is combined with the...

Building Global Learning Communities

Thomas Cochrane; Ilona Buchem; Mar Camacho; Catherine Cronin; Averill Gordon; Helen Keegan

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 21, No. 2 (2013)

Within the background where education is increasingly driven by the economies of scale and research funding, we propose an alternative online open and connected framework (OOC) for building global learning communities using mobile social media. We...

Self-Development of Competences for Social Inclusion Using the TENCompetence Infrastructure

Amelie Louys; Davinia Hernandez-Leo; Judith Schoonenboom; Ruud Lemmers; Mar Perez-Sanagustin

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 3 (2009) pp. 70–81

This paper describes a pilot study centred on the technology-enhanced self-development of competences in lifelong learning education carried out in the challenging context of the Association of Participants Agora. The pilot study shows that the use...

Still Far from Personal Learning: Key Aspects and Emergent Topics about How Future Professionals' PLEs Are

María Paz Prendes Espinosa; Linda Castañeda; Isabel Gutierrez; Mª del Mar Román

Digital Education Review Vol. 29, No. 1 (2016) pp. 15–30

The CAPPLE project is an exploratory research project that aims to analyse the PLEs of future Spanish professionals. An ad-hoc survey about their habits for learning was conducted using a sample of 2054 university students from the last year of a...

Synchronous distance learning and virtual classrooms: A case study on student expectations and conditioning factors

Dario Goussal; María Udrízar Lezcano; #237;o Goussal; Mar ; #237;a Udr; #237;zar Lezcano

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 19, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2003)

In order to cope with increasing enrolment demands and funding constraints, some multi-campus universities in developing regions have considered distance learning (DL) as a way to facilitate access, while improving course delivery effectiveness....

Language: English

Strategies for the Communication and Collaborative Online Work by University Students

Isabel Gutiérrez-Porlán; Marimar Román-García; María-del-Mar Sánchez-Vera

Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal Vol. 26, No. 54 (2018) pp. 91–99

The impact that Information and Communications Technologies have in the way today's young people communicate and interact is unquestionable. This impact also affects the educational field, which is required to respond to the needs of twenty first...

Evaluation of hybrid and distance education learning environments in Spain

Rosario Ferrer-Cascales; Scott Walker; Abilio Reig-Ferrer; Mar ; #237;a Fern; #225;ndez-Pascual ; Natalia Albaladejo-Bl; #225;zquez

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 27, No. 7 (Jan 01, 2011) pp. 1100–1110

Learning Strategies Assessment.The Impact of ICT'S over Learning Process

Gloria Patricia Marciales Vivas; Ma. del Mar Ruíz Gil; Francisco Fernando Viveros Moreno; Jorge Luis Sánchez Téllez

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 982–987

New technologies in educationion probably have changed the way students and teachers approach to knowledge and their learning strategies.In this research we explored cognitive and metacognitive strategies used by Electronic Engineering students....

Topics: Engineering, Students, Educational Technology, Change

Learning Design Rashomon I--Supporting the Design of One Lesson through Different Approaches

Donatella Persico; Francesca Pozzi; Stamatina Anastopoulou; Grainne Conole; Brock Craft; Yannis Dimitriadis; Davinia Hernandez-Leo; Yael Kali; Yishay Mor; Mar Perez-Sanagustin; Helen Walmsley

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 21 (2013)

This paper presents and compares a variety of approaches that have been developed to guide the decision-making process in learning design. Together with the companion Learning Design Rashomon II (Prieto "et al.," 2013), devoted to existing ...

Forget about traditional ways of teaching: creativity is in your heart

Janaina Minelli Oliveira; Eliana Gallardo Echenique; Mar Camacho; E dwa r d A . L o c k h a r t; Francesc Esteve

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1424–1434

This study aimed at coaching, supporting and collaborating with pre-service teacher trainers to help them implement and refine their knowledge and skills of creative learning and technology applied to education. To do so we used a mixed-methods...

Topics: Participatory learning and media